v1.0.6 tutorial + info for f1 f2 etc

[1.0.6] — 2026-09-03

Removed

• The guided run is gone. The toggle in the toolbar and the panel in the
  Live tab have both been removed, along with their strings and styles. On some
  setups the countdown could leave the panel hanging: the timer kept the stream
  and the recording state to itself, and once that went wrong there was no way
  out other than restarting the program. Everything it did can be done by hand
  — pick a type, record, trim in Advanced — so a feature that freezes is
  worse than no feature.

Added

• A recommended first round in the first-run introduction, taking over what
  the guided run used to explain: pitch test (a held hum, about four seconds),
  then /a/, /i/ and /u/ at about three seconds each, every one as its own take
  with its own type, plus the hint to select the calm middle in Advanced
  afterwards. Reachable again at any time from Settings → Info → Show
  introduction again.
• A pulsing golden ⓘ points at the control each page is about — the
  microphone list, the type box, the ⓘ in the toolbar, the Sessions tab, the
  view button. It sits on the real main window rather than on a picture of it,
  ignores mouse clicks so the control underneath stays usable, and survives a
  language switch. Pages about the detail view, which is not open at that
  moment, carry a screenshot with the same marker on the spot that matters.
• Four new introduction pages: what F0, F1 and F2 mean and where the two
  ⓘ buttons explain them; advanced mode, with the waveform, the draggable
  region and why cutting out the calm middle is the whole point; making the
  column layout yours, covering the header menu, dragging columns and the view
  dialog; and what sits behind the settings button, tab by tab.
• packaging/make-intro-shots.py renders the introduction screenshots from the
  real interface with invented data, once per language. The marker positions
  fall out of it: they are computed from where the tab, the Details button, the
  row ⓘ, the Advanced toggle and the analyse button actually sit, and are
  written to assets/intro/shots.json. Hand-taken screenshots go stale and are
  always in one language.
• Screenshots for those pages ship in assets/intro and are installed by all
  four packaging paths. If they are missing, the pages stay readable without
  pictures instead of failing.

Changed

• Picking a language on the first page moves straight on. That page has one
  job; making people confirm it with Next afterwards was a click for nothing.

• The microphone page now says what to do in one line: pick the microphone from
  the list, press Start, speak normally, watch the level card.

• The introduction window sizes itself to the page. One fixed size for all
  of them meant a page with three paragraphs sat in a window built for a
  screenshot, three quarters empty. Text pages now open at roughly 760×380,
  screenshot pages as wide as the picture needs. Heading and text stand in
  their own 700 px column, so line length stays readable under a wider image.

• The introduction shows screenshots in the interface language, and swaps
  them when the language changes rather than keeping the pictures it was built
  with.

• The settings dialog opens on Info. That tab holds the version, the links,
  the debug window and the button that shows the introduction again — what
  people are looking for when they open settings without a specific parameter
  in mind.

• Built-in analysis templates are no longer named in German in the English
  interface. They carried their German names in the code, so Leises
  Mikrofon and Formantmessung (Vokal halten) showed up untranslated. They
  now have keys and translated labels; an old name in an existing config.json
  is migrated on load, so a saved selection survives the update.

• The About dialog is now an Info tab in the settings, next to Design.
  Version, links, licence, the note on network use and the file locations all
  live there, and it is reading material rather than a window that wants
  something, so a tab fits it better than a dialog.

• The buttons that used to crowd the settings button row moved to the top of
  that tab: show introduction again, debug window, copy system info and
  open folder. The button row is back to OK, Cancel and Apply.

• The debug button keeps its error counter and turns red there just as before.

[1.0.5] — unreleased

Added

• First-run introduction. On the very first start the program asks for a
  language and then walks through five short pages: set your level, pick a
  recording type, where sessions and details live, where to look things up,
  and one page on not training through pain. It is not modal, so the
  microphone can be set up while reading. Reachable again at any time from
  Settings → Show introduction again.

Changed

• Windows builds are now two single files. Dream-VoiceTraining.exe for
  the installer and Dream-VoiceTraining-Portable.exe for carrying around.
  Neither needs an _internal folder or anything else beside it — one file is
  the whole program.
• The portable build keeps settings and recordings in a
  Dream-VoiceTraining-Data folder next to the executable instead of under
  %APPDATA%. It recognises portable mode by the file name, or by a
  portable.txt placed beside it if the executable was renamed. If that
  folder cannot be written — a read-only drive, or Program Files — it falls
  back to the normal user folders rather than failing to start.